The lawsuit, which refers to the students as Jane and John Doe, said the case is a perfect example of a failed system of campus sexual assault enforcement highlighted by U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “In the face of Jane Doe’s criticism that UVM was not doing enough for female students, the University’s administrators chose to make an example of John Doe, even though there was no evidence to support it, or corroborate, Jane Doe’s false allegations against him,” the student’s lawyers said in the lawsuit filed this month. … “Jane Doe’s false accusations against John Doe were accepted as fact and upheld by Defendants using a Kafkaesque process that denied John Doe due process of law…” the lawsuit says.

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